I think yesterday's game was the best coached game I've seen from the Lions in a long, long time.

Agreed with the only exceptions being the first couple drives in the red zone, and the drive with the fluky off the knee interception (that should have never been a pass play in the first place).

The play calling was there other than that though, the Bears were really off balance and couldn't keep up with the offensive play calling leading to big rushing opportunities and a lot of open looks for receivers...just really worries me how poor Stafford was in connecting to those receivers or on more than a couple occasions, even seeing the open man._________________

I think yesterday's game was the best coached game I've seen from the Lions in a long, long time.

And this (not picking on you specifically) is why I question the common view of this coaching staff. The players played great and executed the best they have in a while, so we don't question play calling. Lets say we lose. Would people maybe be calling for more screens passes and less runs out of the shotgun right up the middle? Lets say the defense doesn't play so well. Would people be calling for more blitzes or less off coverage by our DB's? Would people be complaining about the high amount of short routes? Would people be complaining about the lack of a full back in our offense (not that I think that is a problem though)?

To me, the only coaching difference I can think of off of the top of my head is the stunts the defensive line did and the lack of screens._________________

I think yesterday's game was the best coached game I've seen from the Lions in a long, long time.

And this (not picking on you specifically) is why I question the common view of this coaching staff. The players played great and executed the best they have in a while, so we don't question play calling. Lets say we lose. Would people maybe be calling for more screens passes and less runs out of the shotgun right up the middle? Lets say the defense doesn't play so well. Would people be calling for more blitzes or less off coverage by our DB's? Would people be complaining about the high amount of short routes? Would people be complaining about the lack of a full back in our offense (not that I think that is a problem though)?

To me, the only coaching difference I can think of off of the top of my head is the stunts the defensive line did and the lack of screens.

Just want to clarify that I don't think yesterday's game was perfectly coached at all. The bar just hasn't been set really high for well coached Lions' games recently.

There were issues that I even brought up in the GDT that I didn't like about the coaching (abandoning the run in the redzone comes to mind first).

I'm just saying there wasn't a whole lot of "why the hell did they call that play" moments last game like there usually is for me._________________

I think yesterday's game was the best coached game I've seen from the Lions in a long, long time.

And this (not picking on you specifically) is why I question the common view of this coaching staff. The players played great and executed the best they have in a while, so we don't question play calling. Lets say we lose. Would people maybe be calling for more screens passes and less runs out of the shotgun right up the middle? Lets say the defense doesn't play so well. Would people be calling for more blitzes or less off coverage by our DB's? Would people be complaining about the high amount of short routes? Would people be complaining about the lack of a full back in our offense (not that I think that is a problem though)?

To me, the only coaching difference I can think of off of the top of my head is the stunts the defensive line did and the lack of screens.

Nice post IDOG, I agree. Had we wound up losing that game, the coaching staff would have been crucified. Really, we won because Cutler decided to play like Cutler, Suh ate Long's face repeatedly, and Bush went thrashmode. The drops were minimal (especially the key ones), which is a pretty big difference in the game.

When players execute, the play-calling looks pretty good. When they make mistakes, it's easy to point the finger at the coaches._________________